Arno Herzig

Arno Herzig (born June 19, 1937 in Albendorf , Glatz district , Silesia ) is a German historian with a focus on the early modern period .

Arno Herzig passed the Abitur at the high school Josephinum Hildesheim . He studied history, German and geography at the University of Würzburg . There he received his doctorate in 1966 on the German Order Coming in Würzburg. He completed his habilitation in 1973 and taught early modern history at the History Department of the University of Hamburg from 1979 until his retirement in 2002 .

Herzig has numerous research projects and publications, including on German-Jewish history , the history of the Reformation and confessionalization, as well as the history of Silesia. He introduced the concept of re-Catholicization , which is based on confessionalization, into early modern research.

His preoccupation with Silesia led to a commemorative publication on his 70th birthday that was only written by Polish authors. This is unique for a German historian. Herzig has been a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia and the Leo Baeck working group since 2002 . In 2010, Herzig received the Silesian Culture Prize of the State of Lower Saxony for his essays and monographs on the history of Silesia .

Fonts

Monographs

• Judaism and emancipation in Westphalia. Aschendorff, Münster 1973, ISBN 3-402-05874-X .
• The General German Workers' Association in German Social Democracy. Depicted in the biography of the functionary Carl Wilhelm Tölcke (1817–1893). Colloquium, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-7678-0465-4 .
• Abraham Jacobi: The development to a socialist and revolutionary democrat. Letters, documents, press articles (1848–1853). Minden History Association, Minden 1980.
• "In our hearts the glow of freedom shines". The emergence of civil and social democracy in Minden (1848–1878). Minden History Association, Minden 1981.
• with Rainer Sachs: The Breslau journeyman revolt of 1793. The notes of master tailor Johann Gottlieb Klose. Presentation and documentation. Schwartz, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-509-01398-0 .
• Lower class protest in Germany 1790–1870. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-33543-1 (Japanese translation: Hisashi Yano, Tokyo 1993).
• Reformation Movements and Confessionalization: The Habsburg Re-Catholicization Policy in the County of Glatz. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930802-22-8 .
• Jewish History in Germany: From the Beginnings to the Present. Beck, Munich 1997; 2nd, revised and updated edition 2002, ISBN 3-406-47637-6 .
• Contributions to the social and cultural history of Silesia and the county of Glatz: Collected essays on the 60th birthday. Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1997, ISBN 3-923293-56-9 .
• Denomination and assurance of salvation: Silesia and the County of Glatz in the early modern period. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89534-459-1 .
• Glaciographia Nova: Festschrift for Dieter Pohl. Dobu, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-934632-05-X .
• Silesians from the 14th to the 20th century (= Schlesische Lebensbilder. Vol. 8). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 2004, ISBN 3-7686-3501-5 .
• (Editor) Jewish sources on the reform and acculturation of the Jews in Westphalia. Aschendorff, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-05762-X .
• with Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Kłodzko Land. Dobu, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934632-12-2 (published simultaneously in Polish).
• Gabriel Riesser. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8319-0311-5 .
• Silesia. The country and its history in pictures, texts and documents. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8319-0282-8 .
• Jewish life in Minden and Petershagen. Mindener Geschichtsverein, Minden 2012, ISBN 978-3-929894-32-5 .
• Interest in the Jews in the Early Modern Age: Studies on the Continuity and Change in the Image of the Jews. Dobu, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-934632-46-2 .
• History of Silesia. From the Middle Ages to the present. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67665-9 .

Editorships

• Judaism and Enlightenment. Jewish self-image in the bourgeois public. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-36262-5 .
• With Cay Rademacher : The History of the Jews in Germany. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8319-0264-4 .

literature

• Jörg Deventer (Ed.): Turning times: rule, self-assertion and integration between Reformation and liberalism. Announcement for Arno Herzig on his 65th birthday. Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6140-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Arno Herzig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Arno Herzig at the University of Hamburg

Remarks

1. ↑ Latest news from County Glatz